AA on Q♦ 7♣ 3♠, checked to you — bet small, bet big or check?
The answer
Bet big
Bet pot-size
The math: Q73 · the Big Blind's wide defence is full of queens that pay a big bet → solver bets pot-size with aces 90% of the time.
Why
Your aces are a massive overpair on Q♦ 7♣ 3♠ — and this time the caller's range is built to pay. The Big Blind defends every suited queen and most offsuit ones, so a thick band of Qx top pairs will call a pot-size bet on this static board. That's the condition big bets need: second-best hands that pay. The solver fires pot with aces here 90% of the time. Charge the queens the most while the board is this safe.
The spot
- Your seat
- BTN
- Stakes and stacks
- $1 / $2 · 100bb
- Your hand
- A♠ A♣
- Board
- Q♦ 7♣ 3♠
- Pot
- POT · $20
- Action on you
- BB checks
Every option
Bet smallBet ~1/3 pot
Why not: A third-pot stab leaves money on the table when your aces are this far ahead and Qx will happily call far more.
Bet bigBet pot-sizeCorrect
CheckCheck behind
Why not: Checking a monster wastes the one street where worse hands are keen to put chips in against you.
The idea behind it
Big bets need customers: when the caller's range is full of strong-but-second-best hands — like every Qx on a queen-high board — your strongest overpairs size up. Without those customers, even monsters join the small range bet.
Concept: Big for value
Terms in this spot
Play it instead of reading it
The trainer deals this hand with hints, grading and spaced repetition — and randomized variations of it once you have seen it.